Changes to sick leave entitlements for secondary teachers

Leave management

School Annual and Sick Leave report

School email contacts

Your 2015 ACC annual levy will have been deducted

I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Mathew Gordon and since April this year I have been managing Education Payroll Limited's Service Desk and Support areas based here in our Wellington office.

For the past 15+ years my background has involved managing contact centres across a number of service based industries. As such, I am passionate about service delivery and am excited about what we in the Service Desk & Support area can do to continue our journey towards providing excellence in service to you, our customers.

As you know, Education Payroll Limited is a relatively new company established to take over the delivery of the schools payroll which is the largest in New Zealand, paying 90,000 school employees (principals, teachers and support staff) in 2,500 schools every fortnight.

One of Education Payroll Limited's key objectives is our commitment to our customers and looking for ways we can improve the efficiency and delivery of our payroll service.

I look forward to providing you with updates in the future on the activities we are completing to help achieve that objective.

Lastly, I'd like to acknowledge that it's a busy time of year for schools and many of you will also be completing the leave process we currently have in place. If you haven't completed the leave process as yet, please remember we are working towards a Monday 14th September deadline.

Changes to sick leave entitlements for secondary teachers

From 11 September, there will be a change to sick leave entitlements for secondary teachers.

After they have reached 40 years and 6 months of service, eligible employees will receive five further days sick leave entitlement for each year of service, as per Table B. This will mean more consistency with employees who are eligible for sick leave as per Table A.

This entitlement will show in the new fortnightly report, which will be available to schools from 30 September 2015.

This change will not be applied retrospectively, so for the Leave Balance Confirmation process schools should continue to refer to the employee's entitlements as at 4 August 2015.

Leave management

Leave Balance Confirmation process

The deadline for sending in CSVs is 14 September. If you have not yet submitted your CSV to the Service Centre, you will need to make sure it's completed and sent by this date. The Service Centre will continue to process CSVs and liaise with schools after the deadline, as required.

You will be able to access the confirmation instructions and your school CSV/PDF for a few days after the deadline, after which time they will be removed from Novopay Online and the website.

With the leave balance confirmation process about to finish, please revert back to normal processes for leave bookings or leave balance enquiries. See Leave management for more information.

It is important to record all leave bookings in the Novopay payroll system. This ensures schools are complying with the Holidays Act 2003 and balances are kept up to date.

Thank you to all those schools who have submitted CSVs to date.

School Annual and Sick Leave report

The School Annual and Sick Leave report will be available via Novopay Online from 30 September.

This fortnightly report provides current information about leave entitlements, bookings and balances for employees at your school. This report will help schools approve leave requests, monitor employee leave and minimise financial risks.